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What followed was a desperate sweep across miles of open ocean.
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Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 8 May 2026
The commission's website says the Sargasso Sea is a 2 million square mile open ocean ecosystem, bounded by the circulating currents of the North Atlantic Gyre, one of five sea gyres which are geographic rotating currents.
—Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 4 May 2026
Tamara Narganes Homfeldt, a marine biologist for Whale and Dolphin Conservation, wondered whether a sick whale might inadvertently get stranded while seeking refuge from the open ocean.
—Jessica Camille Aguirre, New Yorker, 2 May 2026
The survivors, drifting on the open ocean, are then whittled down by hunger and thirst, by the varied dangers of the Pacific, and eventually by one another.
—Eva Holland, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2026
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Virginia Chamlee, PEOPLE, 8 May 2026
The commission's website says the Sargasso Sea is a 2 million square mile open ocean ecosystem, bounded by the circulating currents of the North Atlantic Gyre, one of five sea gyres which are geographic rotating currents.
—Sarah Perkel, USA Today, 4 May 2026
Tamara Narganes Homfeldt, a marine biologist for Whale and Dolphin Conservation, wondered whether a sick whale might inadvertently get stranded while seeking refuge from the open ocean.
—Jessica Camille Aguirre, New Yorker, 2 May 2026
The survivors, drifting on the open ocean, are then whittled down by hunger and thirst, by the varied dangers of the Pacific, and eventually by one another.
—Eva Holland, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2026
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“Open ocean.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/open%20ocean. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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